[TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 8/26/2010 3:47 PM, Larry WA9VRH wrote:
> Hi Dan and Bill,
>
> I have WildBlue and love it. I was able to deal with VPN when I was working
> for Oce and needed it
> to access our network. Never worried about the speed as it was light years
> ahead of Verizon dial up
> which on a good day was 24.6!
>
> I have used it with Echolink and it works fine. Very few outtages in 5 plus
> years....  Hope it doesn't go South now!
Less than 5 years ago my daughter had it out in the mountains of 
Colorado.  She had so many problems with it she finally gave up.
I guess it's one of those YMMV<:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)
> 73 Larry WA9VRH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Gillenwater"<gillie at pa.net>
> To: "Dan Bookwalter"<N8DCJ at YAHOO.COM>;<towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
>
>
>> I used a DirecTV/DirecWAY internet satellite for several years. It works
>> fine. It was almost DSL speed but not cable modem speed. This was 4 years
>> ago, so higher speeds may be available. Beats the heck out of the old
>> telephone modem hookup. I have even seen some motor homes with the
>> DirectTV
>> satellite service and they are very happy with it.  As long as you don't
>> have to go through any VPN type networks (some business networks have
>> multiple firewall gadgets) it will work fine. I was happy. Lived in the
>> woods and on top of a mountain with not hope of cable or DSL.
>> 73 Bill K3SV
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dan Bookwalter"<n8dcj at yahoo.com>
>> To:<towertalk at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:08 PM
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
>>
>>
>>> please send any responses to my personal email , n8dcj at yahoo.com
>>>
>>> I have moved to a place with no land based broadband internet
>>> availability
>>> (no
>>> DSL or RoadRunner). Does anyone have any experience with satellite ? I am
>>> concerned about the latencies , the sales guy at WildBlue claims 250-500
>>> millisecond which i can live with , but , everywhere on the internet i
>>> see
>>> it is
>>> more like 2000 milliseconds. I do not think i can get any wireless stuff
>>> either
>>> as i am surrounded by tree's.
>>>
>>> Dan N8DCJ
>>>
>>>
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